—— on Muhammad (3/5)
The second is the collection of stories called, the Hadith. This is a meticulously corroborated set of sayings that Islamic historians have put together from that time. The project of collecting these stories was undertaken with a precision and attention to detail that had never been attained before or since.
While famously, we do not know who wrote the Gospels or many other books of the Bible. The Hadith not only tell us the names of who is narrating the story, but each name of every person that passed on the story in the chain up until it was written down. Because it was written down 200 years after Muhammad died, early Muslims knew they had to be extremely fastidious to be sure that what they were saying was true. The extent they went to to achieve this had never previously been done in history, nor has it since.
The second is the collection of stories called, the Hadith. This is a meticulously corroborated set of sayings that Islamic historians have put together from that time. The project of collecting these stories was undertaken with a precision and attention to detail that had never been attained before or since.
While famously, we do not know who wrote the Gospels or many other books of the Bible. The Hadith not only tell us the names of who is narrating the story, but each name of every person that passed on the story in the chain up until it was written down. Because it was written down 200 years after Muhammad died, early Muslims knew they had to be extremely fastidious to be sure that what they were saying was true. The extent they went to to achieve this had never previously been done in history, nor has it since.